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	Why the Future Doesn't Need Us URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html ODP description: Article on how technologies, including robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, are threatening to make humans an endangered species. Page title: Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us.
	NIC - Mapping the Global Future 2020 URL: http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html ODP description: A document based on consultations with non governmental experts around the world, with regional and global scenarios representing alternative futures. By the National Intelligence Council, US Government. Page title: NIC Mission
	100 Phenomena URL: http://www.linturi.fi/100_phenomena/index.html ODP description: Complete English text from the Finnish book "100 Phenomena" by Risto Linturi and Ilkka Hannula containing miniature scenarios for the years 2000 to 2020 illustrating what may happen in our future and how it will feel. Page title: Hannula & Linturi: 100 Phenomena
	Philosophy of Technology URL: http://home.comcast.net/~reillyjones/ ODP description: Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity's natural drive towards cultural and physical speciation. Page description: Philosophy of Technology
	ROBOT: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec URL: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book98/ ODP description: Additional figures and text for Moravec's book on the next six decades. Page title: hpm98book - ROBOT: mere machine to transcendent mind, Hans Moravec
	Future Studies URL: http://www.future-studies.com/ ODP description: Essays on change, the future of humanity, and transhumanism, by Nick Bostrom; archival site, no longer updated. Page description: A new way of thinking about the future
	The Collegiate Landscape of the Future URL: http://www.collegiateway.org/future/ ODP description: The universities of the future won't be built around the Internet; they will be built around small residential colleges. Page description: What the landscape of higher education will look like when universities are rebuilt with decentralized, faculty-led residential colleges.
	Introduction to Future Studies URL: http://www.csudh.edu/global_options/IntroFS.HTML#FSMethodols ODP description: A summary of methodologies for studying change and future. By Linda Groff and Paul Smoker, Global Options, California State University, USA.
	Ethical Issues of Robots in Society URL: http://www.freeonlineresearchpapers.com/ethical-issues-robots-society ODP description: Discusses the ethical issues of robots in society, such as robot slavery and daily treatment. Page title: Ethical Issues of Robots in Society Essay Page description: Robots grow more and more capable all the time.
	Reflections Of A Changing Era URL: http://www.usdreams.com/ReflecChanging49.html ODP description: Reflections Of A Changing Era, The American Dream, by Jim Bickford. Page title: The American Dream, Reflections Of A Changing Era Page description: A patriotic tribute to the greatest land of opportunity, America, by Jim Bickford
	News for a Synergic Earth URL: http://www.synearth.net ODP description: A collection of discussions and articles focused on culture, systems thinking and how to create a more sustainable future. Page title: News for a Synergic Earth :
	Carfree City Design URL: http://www.priorities.org/carfree.htm ODP description: Exploring the prospect of designing auto-less, sustainable communities with alternative transportation, renewable energy, pedestrian orientation, mixed-use zoning, fiber optics and recycling facilities in all units and other green features to aid in long-term quality of life survival. Page title: WHY REDUCE AUTOMOBILEDEPENDENCE
	Innovation Watch URL: http://www.innovationwatch.com ODP description: Follows developments in science, technology, business, society and the environment and assesses their impact. Page description: Innovation Watch follows developments in science, technology, business, society, global politics and the environment, and speculates about where they they may be taking us. Resources describe major trends that are tributaries to the emerging future -- identifying discontinuities that could create a break with current reality, and developing alternative scenarios for what the future might look like. News feeds, weblogs, books, and articles e...
	Scenarios: The Red Herring Column URL: http://www.gbn.org/ColumnListDisplayServlet.srv?col=10 ODP description: Contains several papers about various topics. Including Yucca Mountain, the uture of the economy, and broad band. Page title: GBN: Scenarios Page description: A series of columns by GBN cofounder and chairman Peter Schwartz published by Red Herring magazine.
	Australia's Future URL: http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/decline/civfut.htm ODP description: A prediction about the nature of the impending Republic of Australia. Page title: A prediction of Australia's Future Page description: A prediction of the future of Australia, and the nature of the forthcoming multicultural republic.
	The Sky is the Linit URL: http://jp.senescence.info/thoughts/transhumanism.html ODP description: A personal discussion of the most relevant and actual of the world's problems. Page title: The Sky Is the Limit: Transhumanism, the Singularity, and Self-Evolution Page description: An introduction to transhumanism and how the human species is only the beggining of the extraordinary journey that lies ahead.
	Future Studies: An Interdisciplinary Vehicle for Space Science Education URL: https://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/nasa/future.htm ODP description: Essay on use of futur studies in the space science curriculum which includes example methods, suggested reading, and three futures course descriptions.
	Manifesto for the Peoples of the Third Millennium URL: http://m3peeps.org/manif.htm ODP description: An outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies. Page description: Outline of processes for developing progressive alternative societies.
	Social Fiction - S. Flor URL: http://www.social-fiction.de ODP description: Report from the year 2029: local markets have become an important complement to the established global economic system. Page title: Social Fiction - S.Flor Page description: Vision of a dual economy with local markets. Eine dualwirtschaftliche Vision mit Lokalmärkten
	A Message From Future Generations URL: http://ieti.org/tough/articles/fg.htm ODP description: People of the future give advice on spiritual and political development. Dr. Allen Tough's book. Page title: Professor Allen Tough: A Message from Future Generations Page description: Prof. Allen Tough is a noted social scientist, author, educator, and futurist residing near Toronto, Ontario Canada. These pages present an overview to his research, writing, and thinking.